DISCUSSION: The author’s main argument about intellectual authority in the court system is in the final paragraph. The right answer adds new context to that paragraph.
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- The author never said judges were perfect. It’s okay for them to make bad decisions as long as intellectual authority eventually corrects them.
- So? This is to be expected. It would be deeply weird if every legal system in the world had exactly the same percentage of flawed reasoning.
- “Many” could be as few as 15-20% of cases; this is vague. We need something that tells us judges rarely use intellectual authority.
- So? This could just mean that all legal systems use intellectual authority, but some use it even more than the others.
- CORRECT. This means judges aren’t using intellectual authority very often. The author thought that intellectual authority was mainly used to reconsider decisions. (lines 51-54)
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